Lead Recruiter

About Us

Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful’s award-winning AI capabilities accelerate decision-making, helping Planful users in over 100 countries to close faster, accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company with more than 1,500 customers, including Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, Grafton Plc, Gousto, and Specialized, and is backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at Planful.com.

About the Role

We’re at a defining moment as a company. After a period of rapid change, we’re focused on building our next chapter with intention, discipline, and a higher bar for talent. Recruiting will be at the center of that next phase, and we’re looking for a Recruiting Lead to build it with us. This role reports directly to the Chief People Officer and will begin as a team of one. You won’t be inheriting a large team or a perfectly built machine. Instead, you’ll step into a real opportunity: to rebuild, reimagine, and create the recruiting engine that fuels our growth. You’ll have the autonomy to assess what’s working, fix what’s not, raise expectations, and create structure where it’s needed. Over time, you’ll have the opportunity to hire and develop a team. But first, we need to build the foundation thoughtfully and with high standards.

If you’re energized by the idea of rolling up your sleeves, getting your hands dirty, and leaving things better than you found them, this is the kind of challenge that will stretch and excite you.

Responsibilities

Own Recruiting End-to-End

• Lead 5–8 searches at a time across functions and levels
• Personally source and engage high-caliber talent
• Partner deeply with hiring managers to define what great looks like
• Run thoughtful, competitive offer processes and close top candidates
• Deliver a candidate experience that reflects the caliber of talent we want to attract

Rebuild and Elevate the Foundation

• Reset the bar for hiring rigor and talent standards
• Strengthen hiring manager accountability and partnership
• Improve workflows, communication rhythms, and data visibility
• Introduce smarter systems and scalable processes
• Continuously assess what can be better and take action

Business Partnership 

• Work directly with senior leaders to align hiring with company priorities
• Use data and market insight to influence decisions
• Push for excellence while balancing speed and quality

What You Bring to the Table

• Experience
  • 3-4 years of full-cycle recruiting experience (SaaS/tech preferred)
  • Experience hiring for GTM roles (Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, etc.)
  • Strong sourcing capability and comfort managing multiple concurrent searches
  • Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter and Greenhouse

• How you show up
  • You’re the kind of person who creates momentum instead of waiting for ideal conditions. When something needs to move, you move it.
  • You take real ownership. You don’t wait to be told what to do, and you figure them out.
  • You’re hands-on and grounded. You’re just as comfortable building the strategy as you are doing the sourcing, running the process, and closing the candidate.
  • You’re naturally curious. You ask thoughtful questions, dig deeper than surface-level answers, and genuinely want to understand how things work and how they could work better.
  • You’re wired for improvement. “Good enough” doesn’t sit right with you. You’re always looking for smarter, simpler, more effective ways to operate.
  • And when things change (because they will) you stay steady. Ambiguity doesn’t rattle you. You bring clarity, focus, and forward motion.

Why Planful 

Planful exists to enrich the world by helping our customers and our people achieve peak performance. To foster the best in class work we’re so proud of, we’ve created a best in class culture, including:

• Volunteer days, Birthday PTO, and company-wide Wellness Days
• Supply of diapers and meal deliveries for the first month of your Maternity/Paternity leave
• Team off-sites in exciting destinations like New York, Sonoma, Nashville, Palm Springs, and our San Francisco headquarters
• Office hubs in San Francisco, Toronto, and London. We also offer benefits such as home office setup, and monthly wifi and cell phone reimbursements for remote employees
• Join Employee Resource Groups like Women of Planful, Parents of Planful, and more. We celebrate individuality and encourage teammates to bring their authentic selves to work - with full support for creating new ERGs and communities along the way
• Participate in People Programs that foster connection and wellbeing, such as Movember, Summer Wellness, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Hispanic Heritage Month

Pay Transparency Statement

At Planful, our top priority is supporting our employees and ensuring everyone has access to equal growth opportunities. Compensation decisions are based on each individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. Our base salary band for this role is $120,000 - $130,000 USD per year, depending on working location and experience. This position is also eligible for bonus or commission. You can learn more about our benefits https://planful.com/jobs/.